Gaffky-Eberth bacillus

Related people

The typhus bacillus.

Description

The typhus bacillus.

Karl Joseph Eberth, German bacteriologist and pathologist, 1835-1926 will be entered later.

Bibliography

  • C. J. Eberth:
    Die Organismen in den Organen bei Typhus abdominalis.
    [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1880, 81: 58-74.
  • C. J. Eberth:
    Neue Untersuchungen über den Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus.
    [Virchows] Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin, Berlin, 1881, 83: 486-501.
  • G. T. A. Gaffky:
    Zur Aetiologie des Abdominaltyphus.
    Mittheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundsheitsamte, Berlin, 1884; 2: 372-420.

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